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US Security Firm Defends Partnership with Censorship-Happy Chinese Giant Baidu
- mtgx 11y agoIt seems Microsoft, Cisco and many other companies are doing these "deals" [1] now, no doubt forced upon them by the Chinese government if they want to continue to do business in the country. At the same time it sort of "exempts" the companies from being accused of surveillance or censorship because they can say they don't offer the final product or service to the Chinese customers, but their Chinese partner there does. This way China gets all the backdoors it wants, while US companies can continue to pretend they are pure and innocent in public and it allows them to save face and continue to promote how much they care about privacy and security elsewhere. [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/us-cisco-systems-china-idUSKCN0RO0AE20150924 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/us-cisco-systems-c...